Facebook has enough trouble winning trust, but imagine if they were the government. Well, the US government has plans to develop what is essentially their version of Facebook Connect to provide citizens with a single online identity. Would you use it?

ReadWriteWeb reports that the United States government plans to create an identity ecosystem that will allow a user to have a single verified identity and use it to sign in to any site supporting the program. It's basically like the government version of Facebook Connect. Verizon, Google, PayPal, Symantec and AT&T all support the program already, but do you? Would you feel comfortable handing over your single login to the government?